Killing of Charlie Riggins in Georgia in 1930
Incident
Charlie Riggins, age 22, died in 1930 four days after arriving in a prison camp in Pulaski County, Georgia. According to the death certificate, he died of a sudden stroke. Riggins’s death was documented in the book Georgia Nigger by John L. Spivak, which sparked the NAACP to request that Georgia Governor R.B. Russell investigate the torture and abuse of imprisoned people in Georgia.
advocacy group resources
- News article from the New Journal and Guide about the deaths of George Johnson, Charlie Riggins and George Neal, and widespread inhumane conditions within the prison system in Georgia : October 8, 1932
- News article from the Chicago Defender about a letter from the American Civil Liberties Union protesting prison conditions in Georgia : November 26, 1932
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